Autologon script with group policy

[chris]

Hello all:

We are trying to find a good way (if possible) to have a few selected
Windows XP machines autologon via a group policy, in our Windows 2003
domain.

We are open to using a script via GPO so that it will run at startup,
which we know is possible. I was wondering if anybody has implemented
this already, and if so how? We are currently looking for a script to
handle the autologon process, that can be applied with GPO.

Thanks much in advance!!

 

[Mike Shepperd]

Vague memories of an AutoAdminLogon setting under the Winlogon key in the
registry. Worst case, you could set that via script in a GPO that only
applies to the machines you want to login automatically. A word of caution
though, the password is stored in plain text in the registry for that to
work so it's best done for an account that has few permissions.

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[chris]

Thanks for the reply. We are aware of doing this with a script that
will modify the appropriate registry keys. We've been looking for a
way to encrypt the password, or make it inaccessible by the regular
domain users in some way. The kix scripting (www.kixstart.org) also
looks interesting, however we have not been able to find anything yet
that will work.

Thanks!!

 

[Corné Bogaarts]

You can limit the account so that it can only log on to a specific computer.